CONTENTS

From the Editors
The Vibrant 18th Century … 237

Forum: Decrees and the Limits of Autocracy in 18th-Century Russia

EVGENII V. AKELEV
The Barber of All Russia: Lawmaking, Resistance, and Mutual Adaptation during Peter the Great’s Cultural Reforms … 241

SERGEY CHERNIKOV
Noble Landownership in 18th-Century Russia: Revisiting the Economic and Sociopolitical Consequences of Partible Inheritance … 277

ELENA MARASINOVA
Punishment by Penance in 18th-Century Russia: Church Practices in the Service of the Secular State … 305

LORENZ ERREN
Feofan Prokopovich’s Pravda voli monarshei as Fundamental Law of the Russian Empire … 333

Reaction

RICHARD S. WORTMAN
Intentions and Realities in 18th-Century Monarchy: New Insights and Discoveries … 361

History and Historians

INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD
Faded Glory in Full Color: Russia’s Architectural History … 379

David L. Ransel
FROM THE DEL´VIG HOUSE TO THE GAS-SCRAPER: THE FIGHT TO Preserve St. Petersburg … 405

Review Essays

MICHAEL D. GORDIN
Reflexivity and the Russian Professoriate … 433

VOLODYMYR RYZHKOVSKYI
Beyond the Binaries: The Postwar Soviet Intelligentsia in History and Memory … 447

Reviews

GEORGE G. WEICKHARDT
Criminal Law in Muscovy … 461

JONATHAN W. DALY
Perlustration in Imperial Russia … 466

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER NÉRARD
Stalinism as Traditional Political Culture … 475

Letters

JUSTIN YOO
To the Editors … 483

ISAAC SCARBOROUGH
To the Editors … 484

Contributors to This Issue … 486